Posted on 07/25/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Olney Theatre’s production of Mel Brooks’s 2001 musical The Producers only has three more performances, but it’s not going to close without a bit of manufactured controversy. Audience members at Montgomery County playhouse are going to have to walk past a small coterie protesting the show’s play-within-the-play, because, the demonstrators say, it makes light of Adolf Hitler and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.
“I understand the intent is satire,” says Jeffrey Imm, who is organizing the demonstration through his anti-discrimination group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty. “This is the point of morality: some things we have to recognize as absolute evil. When 6 million people are murdered, we don’t view it with knee-slapping, we view it with reverence.”
In The Producers, which is adapted from Brooks’s Oscar-winning 1968 film of the same name, two crooked Broadway producers endeavor to profit off a critical and commercial flop, which they believe they find in Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden, which portrays Hitler as a flamboyant dandy.
Even though the jokes in The Producers come at the expense of show-business types and Nazis, Imm is not impressed by its humor, or the original Broadway run’s record 12 Tony Awards. Contemporary audiences, he argues, are no longer frightened by genocide.
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An updated version thanks to Obama's inaction:
Springtime for ISIS and Sharia Law
Jihad's the new fad today
We're building an Islamic State
Look out, here comes the Caliphate!
And Mel Brooks cameo as a dancer: "come on be a smartee, come and join the Nazi partee,"
LOL
He sounds like he’s offended that folks are making fun of der Führer.
***Warning: You May Die Laughing!***
I’ve seen a number of comedies on film about WWII. That was the worst bloodletting in history. Should they take all the comedies about that war out of circulation?
Or Combat.
It was by the “Capitol Steps.”
Dick Shawn was a great talent. I always felt sorry for him at how he died. He died on stage and everyone thought it was part of the act. That’s no joke.
Hitler, there was a painter. He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon, TWO COATS!!!
What HUMORLESS people! The JOKE is that the PLAY they are PRODUCING is a JOKE!
It’s a JOKE! A JOKE! The whole play is based on the most ridiculous thing you could decide to PRODUCE in the FIRST place!
Gawd. I’m so tired of dealing with these self-righteous MORONS!
“Don’t ever let this guy know about Hogan’s Heroes.”
I laughed out loud in real life! Thank you! :)
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